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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4239 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 17, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence 

AN ACT 

To require intelligence community reporting on foreign fighter flows to and from terrorist safe havens abroad, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tracking Foreign 

3 Fighters in Terrorist Safe Havens Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY REPORTING TO CON5 GRESS ON FOREIGN FIGHTER FLOWS. 

6 (a) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 

7 after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 

8 days thereafter, the Director of National Intelligence, con9 sistent with the protection of intelligence sources and 

10 methods, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 

11 committees a report on foreign fighter flows to and from 

12 terrorist safe havens abroad. 

13 (b) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under sub14 section (a) shall include, with respect to each terrorist safe 

15 haven, the following: 

16 (1) The total number of foreign fighters who 

17 have traveled or are suspected of having traveled to 

18 the terrorist safe haven since 2011, including the 

19 countries of origin of such foreign fighters. 

20 (2) The total number of United States citizens 

21 present in the terrorist safe haven. 

22 (3) The total number of foreign fighters who 

23 have left the terrorist safe haven or whose where24 abouts are unknown. 

25 (c) FORM.—The reports submitted under subsection 

26 (a) may be submitted in classified form. If such a report 


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1 is submitted in classified form, such report shall also in2 clude an unclassified summary. 

3 (d) SUNSET.—The requirement to submit reports 

4 under subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 

5 two years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

6 (e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE7 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres8 sional committees’’ means— 

9 (1) in the Senate— 

10 (A) the Committee on Armed Services; 

11 (B) the Select Committee on Intelligence; 

12 (C) the Committee on the Judiciary; 

13 (D) the Committee on Homeland Security 

14 and Governmental Affairs; 

15 (E) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 

16 and Urban Affairs; 

17 (F) the Committee on Foreign Relations; 

18 and 

19 (G) the Committee on Appropriations; and 

20 (2) in the House of Representatives— 

21 (A) the Committee on Armed Services; 

22 (B) the Permanent Select Committee on 

23 Intelligence; 

24 (C) the Committee on the Judiciary; 

25 (D) the Committee on Homeland Security; 


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1 (E) the Committee on Financial Services; 

2 (F) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and 

3 (G) the Committee on Appropriations. 

Passed the House of Representatives December 16, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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